Testimonial letter from Sw Ananda Vishnu
This letter is one of a remarkable series of over 2650 letters amassed in 1983 to support Osho's attempt to get permanent resident status in the US at the time of the Oregon ranch. The image is reproduced here with the kind permission of The Oregon Historical Society. Information about their collection of these letters and other supporting material -- the "Jeffrey Noles Rajneesh Collection", named for Osho's immigration lawyer Jeffrey Noles, who compiled them in 1983 and donated them to the OHS -- can be found at this page. The wiki is grateful to the OHS for making access available for these documents. For more information and links to all the letters, see Testimonial letters.
This letter is from Sw Ananda Vishnu. It is "Exhibit A-2152" in the Noles collection.
The text version below has been created by optical character recognition (OCR), from the images supplied by OHS. It has not been checked for errors but this process usually results in over 99% correct transcription. Most apparent "errors" are correct transcriptions of typos already in the original. The image on the right in the text box links to a pdf file of the original letter, it has one page.
 P.O. Box 10 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN As a former student of psychology with a degree from the University of Florida, I can vouch for Bhagwan's extraordinary and unparalleled understanding of human problems on a personal and social level. Not only is he able to illuminate these subjects, he is able to devise solutions. History will show Bhagwan to be one of those seminal men who help usher in a new era. As a country whose very greatness has depended on the quality of people who have been welcomed to enter, America can only benefit from Bhagwan's presence. We need renewed vitality in the psychological sciences. Love. |
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